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Piaget described human thought in terms of two basic concepts:
Question 2
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A two-year-old child’s family has a pet dog. The child visits the neighbor’s house and sees their pet dog. Even though the neighbor’s dog is larger and a different color the child points to it and says “dog.” Which of Piaget’s processes does this demonstrate?
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Adaptation
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Accomodation
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Assimlation
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Acclamation
Question 3
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Piaget interpreted an infant’s tendency to explore new objects through sucking as an instance of
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Adaptation
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Assimilation
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Accomondation
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Oral exploration
Question 4
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Toy manufacturers need to be careful that toys and parts of toys are too large for children to put into their mouths. Piaget would interpret this as
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An understanding of children's tendency to assimilate
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Unnecessary intrusion in developmental process
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Understanding of egocentricity of young children
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Understanding of a children's lack of object performance
Question 5
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Piaget’s term for a pattern of action or a mental structure that is involved in acquiring or organizing knowledge is a(n)
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Invariance
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Heirarchy
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Schema
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Adaptation
Question 6
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After having several birthday parties at home, a six-year old develops a _____ for this type of an experience, so they will know what to expect if they go to someone else’s birthday party.
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Pattern
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Plan
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Habit
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Schema
Question 7
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A two-year-old child’s family has a pet cat. When they visit the zoo, the child sees a lion and calls it a cat. To modify the child’s misunderstanding, what process must occur according to Piaget?
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Accomodation
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Acclamation
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Assimilation
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Adaptation
Question 8
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Piaget’s term for the creation of new ways of responding to objects is
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Assimilation
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Schemata
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Accomodation
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Invariance
Question 9
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People expect whales to be fish because they live in the sea. The recognition that whales are mammals requires a(n) __________ of existing schemas.
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Assimilation
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Accomodation
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Learning
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Formalizing
Question 10
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Jean Piaget hypothesized that cognitive development progressed
Question 11
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Piaget’s stages of cognitive development are, in order of increasing age:
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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational.
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sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational, preoperational.
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preoperational, operational, post operational, formal operational.
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assimilation, adaptation, accommodation.
Question 12
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During the sensorimotor stage, behavior becomes increasingly
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Cognitive
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Automatic
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Disorganized
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Purposeful
Question 13
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How does Piaget interpret the four- to eight-month-old’s interest in kicking a hanging toy and causing it to bounce?
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Assimilation to sucking reflexes
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Association based on memory
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Function of visual perception
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Active exploration of cause-effect relationships
Question 14
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A four-month-old infant is playing with keys. You place a magazine on top of the keys. The infant does not search for them. What does this demonstrate a lack of?
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Object permanence
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Accomodation
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Egocentrism
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Conservation
Question 15
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Prior to the age of six months, you could take a toy away from your infant and the baby would not protest. What Piagetian concept explains this observation?
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Object permanence
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Assimilation
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Concrete operations
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Accommodation
Question 16
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You find that your infant takes great pleasure in the game of peek-a-boo. What Piagetian concept explains this observation?
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Object permanence
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Deferred imitation
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Assimilation
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Preoperations
Question 17
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The acquisition of the basics of language at about age two allows the child to use words and symbols to represent objects. This begins the
Question 18
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A three-year-old child who doesn’t understand that five single dollar bills are equal to a five-dollar bill is in Piaget’s _______ stage.
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Sensorimotor
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Preoperational
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Concrete operational
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Formal operational
Question 19
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A five-year-old is speaking on the telephone to his/her grandparent. The child holds up the picture they were describing and says to the grandparent “See.” According to Piaget, this demonstrates _____.
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Egocentrism
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Object performance
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Animism
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Artificialism
Question 20
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You are playing hide-and-seek with your preoperational child. You count to 10 while he/she hides. You find your child sitting in the middle of the room with his/her eyes closed. The child believes because he/she cannot see you, then you cannot see him/her. What does this demonstrate?
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intellectual impairment
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decentration
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object permanence
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egocentrism
Question 21
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Preoperational children attribute life to physical objects like the sun and the moon. What does this demonstrate?
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Artificialism
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Animism
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Egocentrism
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Conservation
Question 22
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Preoperational children attribute life to physical objects like the sun and the moon. What does this demonstrate?
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Animism
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Egocentrism
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Artificialism
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Conservation
Question 23
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You show a child two tall and thin glasses filled with equal amounts of water. You pour the water from one glass into a short, wide glass and tell the child to take the glass with the most water in it. You are observing the child’s capacity to
a. reason deductively. c. center on one aspect of the situation.
Question 24
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The preoperational child judges only the consequences of an action and cannot center on both consequences and intention. Piaget describes this as
Question 25
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Concrete operational children are capable of __________; they can center on two dimensions of a problem at once.
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Formal opreations
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Visual motor integration
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Cause-effect reasoning
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Decentration
Question 26
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Concrete operational children become __________ in their moral judgments. When assigning guilt, they center on the intentions of the wrongdoer
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Objective
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Rational
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Subjective
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Predictable
Question 27
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One child breaks 15 dishes accidentally, and another child breaks one dish while attempting to steal money from the family change jar. Using the moral judgment of a concrete operational child, whose deed is naughtier?
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Child who broke the most dishes
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Child who broke the dishes while stealing
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Child who broke dishes accidentally
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Child who broke dishes deliberately
Question 28
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Concrete operational children understand the law of __________; that is, they understand that the basic properties of substances such as weight and volume stay the same when you change superficial properties such as their shape or arrangement.
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Conservation
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Effect
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Formal operations
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Symbolic reasoning
Question 29
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Awareness of the concept of decentration supports conservation because it allows children to
Question 30
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Piaget’s concept for the concrete operational child’s capacity to understand that many processes can be undone, reversed, and restored to their previous condition is
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Intentionality
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Reversibility
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Decentration
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Induction
Question 31
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When you arrange two rows of five pennies each and place them a half-inch apart in the first row while separating the other row of five pennies by three inches, the preoperational child will say that the second row has more pennies. However, the concrete operational child has the capacity to __________ numbers and will not make this same error.
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Add
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Subtract
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Symbolize
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Conserve
Question 32
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Because concrete operational children are less egocentric, they can increasingly
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Take objective responsbility
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Take perspective of another
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Take conservative positions
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Reason artificially
Question 33
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Conservation, decentration, reversibility, and subjective responsibility are generally achieved at about __________ years.
Question 34
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Which of the following is a criticism of Piaget’s theory?
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Piaget underestimated the ages at which children developed cognitively.
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Egocentrism and conservation develop more continuously—they may not occur in stages.
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Piaget overestimated the cognitive abilities of infants.
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Both a and b
Question 35
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Support for Piaget’s theory has been found in his view that
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preschoolers are egocentric and lack conservation.
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cognitive development progresses discontinuously.
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cognitive development occurs in a particular sequence.
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all of these.
Question 36
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Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is a(n) __________ theory.
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Information-processing
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Metamemory
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Stage
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Untested
Question 37
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What method of study did Kohlberg use?
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Conventional
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Post conventional
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Nonconventional
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Preconventional
Question 38
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A child who cleans up their room to avoid losing a privilege is operating at the _____ level of Kohlberg’s theory.
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Conventional
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Post conventional
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Nonconventional
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Preconventional
Question 39
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Children at the __________ level of moral reasoning base their judgments on the consequences of behavior.
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Preconventional
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Conventional
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Postconventional
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Metaconventional
Question 40
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An adult who chooses not to park in a handicap space because they want to avoid a ticket and fine, is operating at the _____ level of Kohlberg’s theory.
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Nonconventional
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Post convention
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Preconventional
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Conventional
Question 41
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A third grader who decides not to cheat on a test because if caught their parents would be displeased with them, is operating at the _____ level of Kohlberg’s theory
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Postconvetional
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Nonconventional
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Preconventional
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Conventional
Question 42
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A third grader who decides not to cheat on a test because if caught their parents would be displeased with them, is operating at the _____ level of Kohlberg’s theory
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Metamoral
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Good-boy/good-girl
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Punishment
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Law and order
Question 43
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If a person reasIf a person reasons that Heinz could solve his moral dilemma by obeying the law, even at the cost of his wife’s life, then that person demonstratesons that Heinz could solve his moral dilemma by obeying the law, even at the cost of his wife’s life, then that person demonstrates
Question 44
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If a person reasons that Heinz could solve his moral dilemma by obeying the law, even at the cost of his wife’s life, then that person demonstrates
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Moral reasoning follows a developmental sequence
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Most people reach the post conventional level
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There are no prerequisites for the post conventional level
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Some people may skip stages
Question 45
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Research demonstrates that _______ is a prerequisite for postconventional reasoning
Question 46
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Inconsistencies in Kohlberg’s theory have been found with the fact that
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Moral reasoning follows a developmental seqeuence
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Most people reach the post conventional level
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Piaget's formal operations are a prerequisite for post conventional reasoning
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Children who are exposed to examples of moral reasoning above their own stage will follow along
Question 47
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described the psychosocial stages of development.
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Jean piaget
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Erik erikson
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Sigmund freud
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Lawrence kohlberg
Question 48
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According to Erikson, the infant-parent relationship can affect issues associated with _____ during the first year of life.
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Guilt
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Trust
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Autonomy
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Identity
Question 49
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Erik Erikson described an early stage of psychosocial development during which we depend on primary caretakers. This relationship determines the emergence of
Question 50
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According to Erikson, a toddler who is given opportunities to explore and manipulate things in their environment and who is encouraged to investigate will gain a sense of
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Trust
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Autonomy
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Superirity
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Inferiority
Question 51
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The four childhood goals of social development, according to Erikson, are:
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Trust, identity, intimacy, industry
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Autonomy, initiative, integrity, trust
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Trust, autonomy, initiative, indsutry
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Trust, generativity, identity, industry
Question 52
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Authoritative parents are both strict and
Question 53
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Which parenting style is most likely to have strict guidelines about what is right and wrong and to expect the child to adhere to those guidelines without question?
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Authoritarian
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Permissive
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Restrictive
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Authoritative
Question 54
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What do authoritative and authoritarian parents have in common?
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Both have strict standards
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Both rely on force to gain compliance
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Predictable and don't rely on communication
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Can be cold and rejecting
Question 55
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A child’s father is not very affectionate and demands that the child not speak to an adult unless spoken to, that he/she always put away one toy before taking out another, and that soft drinks be consumed only on special occasions. This child’s father can be described as
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Permissive
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Authoritarian
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Authoritative
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Strict
Question 56
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A child’s mother seldom objects if her child interrupts, and she seldom requires that her child take responsibility for cleaning his/her room or completing homework. This mother’s parenting style would be considered
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Permissive
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Authoritarian
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Flexible
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Authoritative
Question 57
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Permissive parents are poor at communicating but...
Question 58
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What do permissive and authoritarian parents have in common?
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Both indifferent
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Both poor communicators
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Both easygoing
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Both strict
Question 59
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_____________ parents show little encouragement or warmth toward their children and tend to leave them on their own.
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Uninvolved
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Authoritarian
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Authoritative
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Permissive
Question 60
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The most competent children tend to have
Question 61
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116. During a parent-teacher conference, a father says, “My child will do what I say because I say so, no ifs, ands, or buts!” The child of this parent has academic and social problems. The parent’s statement demonstrates
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Permissive
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Authoritative
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Authoritarian
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Uninvolved
Question 62
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Children of uninvolved parents tend to have _______________than children whose parents are more involved.
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Poorer academic achivement
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High rates of deliquency
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Greater social competence
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Poorer academic performance and higher delinquency rates
Question 63
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Baumrind’s study of parenting styles connects
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authoritative parenting with mature and competent children.
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permissive parenting with indifferent parents.
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authoritarian parenting with instrumental competence.
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permissive parenting with creativity.
Question 64
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According to Piaget, cognitive maturity is
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Never achieved
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Represented by formal operations
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Taking objective responsbility
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conventional moral judgment.
Question 65
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Children who recognize that all the ideals they have been taught are not always indicative of the way people act in reality, are experiencing Piaget’s _____ stage of cognitive development.
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Formal operational
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Preoperational
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Concrete operational
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Abstract reasoning
Question 66
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Formal operational children derive rules for action based on
Question 67
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Kohlberg’s level of moral reasoning that may arise during adolescence is the
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Preconventional level
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Postconrete level
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Concrete level
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Postconventional